Motivational Quotes

Politics

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Politics

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Langley, Edward

The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.

Barres

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

Baudrillard, Jean

The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Mitchell, George J.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Noonan, Peggy

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

Taft, William Howard

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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

President Barack Obama

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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Marquis, Don

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Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Rogers, Will

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Rogers, Will

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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Byron, Lord

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People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Watanabe, Michio

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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint -- Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

Kennedy, John F.

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We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Benn, Tony

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My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Gorbachev, Mikhail

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Politics is the art of the next best.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Landor, Walter Savage

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A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Rogers, Will

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Kempton, Murray

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Reagan, Ronald

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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Trotsky, Leon

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The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Dane, Frank

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The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Napoleon III

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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

Jefferson, Thomas

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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Nunn, Gregory

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He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Asquith, Margot

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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Ephron, Nora

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.